Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serious jazz fans have to admit that Papa has his limitations. He has plenty of talent, but he was never a Louis Armstrong, a King Oliver or even a Bunk Johnson. Those performers had jet flights of imagination as they improvised on their horns. Papa is a groundling, but for those who accept him as such, he remains a steady, sturdy pillar...
...gags on a good number of these parodies are old, Homer and Jethro admit, but no one, least of all RCA Victor, which has them under contract, cares much about that. Among their better recordings: Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs ("I cocked an eye at her, she cocked an eye at me/ And we just sit there cockeyed as could be"); You Belong to Me No. 2 ("Bring me pawpaws in a paper poke / Send me money, darlin' when I'm broke / Make your will out to me when you croak / You belong...
...Roman Catholic Church emphasizes externals after he has studied the theological chapters on sanctifying grace, the infused virtues and the infused gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are standard possessions of every justified soul? ... He must certainly know that the Roman Catholic Church is the first to admit that her real princes are the saints, no matter whether they be laymen or clergy . . . Individuals in the church may emphasize ceremonies, and often they are those whose spiritual life is failing. They become formalists...
...based on the realization that Ike is a very popular President, may be dangerous. Now that the President has begun making some Republican-like speeches around the country, and has shown that he has a powerful weapon in television, it may be hard to sell. But Johnson & Co. frankly admit that the "We Like Ike" line is temporary, and can be switched whenever they think the proper time has come...
Vanguard. In Peoria, firemen became suspicious when their unofficial mascot, a 14-year-old boy, always arrived at fires before they did, got him to admit that he had started five blazes because he liked "to watch the fire engines...